an early poetry

an early poetry
correct

and littered
with masqerades

left a huge temptation
to boil down to revolution
this sketch

of Wittgenstein, to fully
shape the world, its problems,
its essentially practical religion,

to elevate the rupture

and the way words are governed
together, impossible to detect

indeed, we might meet the surface
someday -- it may, I think, occupy
this continuum of provisional

grammars, an extra-ordinary
failure to meet the minimum
criteria required to break

my job in two